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NASA to Host Televised Progress Update on Asteroid Redirect Mission

NASA will host a televised update on recent progress and upcoming milestones in the agency's efforts to identify, capture and relocate an asteroid, and send astronauts to take samples of it in the 2020s. The 10 to 11:30 a.m. PDT (1 to 2:30 p.m. EDT) event will kick off a two-day virtual workshop to highlight successes and new opportunities through NASA's Asteroid Grand Challenge, which coincides with its first anniversary.

19 Jun 2014

SLAC Chemist Employs Ultrashort LCLS X-ray Pulses to Study Energy Absorption in Molecules

Looking back at his childhood, SLAC’s Kelly Gaffney recalls the joys of exploring rocky Puget Sound beaches near his Seattle home and engaging in challenging, evidence-driven dinner-table discussions with his parents and older sister.

18 Jun 2014

Ultrahigh Transmission Optical Nanofibers Hold Potential for Quantum Computers

Take a fine strand of silica fiber, attach it at each end to a slow-turning motor, gently torture it over an unflickering flame until it just about reaches its melting point and then pull it apart. The middle will thin out like a piece of taffy until it is less than half a micron across -- about 200 times thinner than a human hair.

18 Jun 2014

New Report on Current and Future Global Market for Quantum Dots

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Quantum Dots 2014" report to their offering.

18 Jun 2014

Cassini Team Hopes to Replicate Cassini’s Flyby of Saturn's Moon, Titan

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms toward Saturn's smoggy moon Titan for a targeted flyby on June 18, mission scientists are excitedly hoping to repeat a scientific tour de force that will provide valuable new insights into the nature of the moon's surface and atmosphere.

18 Jun 2014

High Sensitivity Optical Sensors with Microscopic Polymer Light Resonators Respond to Gases

Using microscopic polymer light resonators that expand in the presence of specific gases, researchers at MIT's Quantum Photonics Laboratory have developed new optical sensors with predicted detection levels in the parts-per-billion range. Optical sensors are ideal for detecting trace gas concentrations due to their high signal-to-noise ratio, compact, lightweight nature, and immunity to electromagnetic interference.

18 Jun 2014

Danish Council Awards NBI’s ALICE Group Grant to Study ‘Primordial Soup’

The ALICE group at the Niels Bohr Institute has received a grant of 6½ million kroner from the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Sciences to research the universe’s primordial state using collisions between heavy atomic nuclei at the LHC at CERN.

18 Jun 2014

UCL Approves Powerful New Methane Model to Detect Life on Planets outside the Solar System

A powerful new model to detect life on planets outside of our solar system, more accurately than ever before, has been developed by UCL (University College London) researchers.

17 Jun 2014

Algae Able to Switch on and off Quantum Coherence in Photosynthesis

A UNSW Australia-led team of researchers has discovered how algae that survive in very low levels of light are able to switch on and off a weird quantum phenomenon that occurs during photosynthesis.

17 Jun 2014

Quantum Theory Helps Identify Surprising Regularity in Human Behavior

Researchers used quantum theory – usually invoked to describe the actions of subatomic particles – to identify an unexpected and strange pattern in how people respond to survey questions.

17 Jun 2014

Hubble to Search for Kuiper Belt Object Beyond Pluto

After careful consideration and analysis, the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee has recommended using Hubble to search for an object the Pluto-bound NASA New Horizons mission could visit after its flyby of Pluto in July 2015.

17 Jun 2014

Game-Changing Capability of SKA in Cosmic Magnetism Presented at AASKA14

At the Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array conference held in June 8-13 in Giardini Naxos, Italy, scientists presented new modelling showing the game-changing capability the SKA will bring to the field of cosmic magnetism. The conference brings together more than 250 scientists from around the world presenting results in fields as diverse as cosmology, exobiology, pulsars or cosmic magnetism.

16 Jun 2014

Director of Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism Named Honorary Professor at Copenhagen University

Professor Rønnow, director of the Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism (LQM-EPFL), has been named "Affiliated Honorary Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics" by the Niels Bohr Institute of the Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences at Copenhagen University.

16 Jun 2014

Charge of Antihydrogen Determined with Unprecedented Precision

Hydrogen is a neutral atom. Its single electron orbits a single proton, and the net effect is no electrical charge. But what about hydrogen’s antimatter counterpart, antihydrogen? Made of a positron that orbits an antiproton, the antihydrogen atom should be neutral too. Various results have indicated as much, but because the charge of antiatoms is difficult to measure, it has remained an open question.

16 Jun 2014

International Particle Accelerator Conference IPAC 2014 Taking Place in Dresden, Germany

Experiments with accelerated particles have already provided many valuable insights for science and society. Accelerators are therefore indispensable in modern research, but the large machines must also function reliably in the field of medicine or within the commercial sphere.

16 Jun 2014

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NASA to Host Televised Progress Update on Asteroid Redirect Mission

SLAC Chemist Employs Ultrashort LCLS X-ray Pulses to Study Energy Absorption in Molecules

Ultrahigh Transmission Optical Nanofibers Hold Potential for Quantum Computers

New Report on Current and Future Global Market for Quantum Dots

Cassini Team Hopes to Replicate Cassini’s Flyby of Saturn's Moon, Titan

High Sensitivity Optical Sensors with Microscopic Polymer Light Resonators Respond to Gases

Danish Council Awards NBI’s ALICE Group Grant to Study ‘Primordial Soup’

UCL Approves Powerful New Methane Model to Detect Life on Planets outside the Solar System

Algae Able to Switch on and off Quantum Coherence in Photosynthesis

Quantum Theory Helps Identify Surprising Regularity in Human Behavior

Hubble to Search for Kuiper Belt Object Beyond Pluto

Game-Changing Capability of SKA in Cosmic Magnetism Presented at AASKA14

Director of Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism Named Honorary Professor at Copenhagen University

Charge of Antihydrogen Determined with Unprecedented Precision

International Particle Accelerator Conference IPAC 2014 Taking Place in Dresden, Germany

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